Comments on: Aurora family killed by intruder with “taste for violence”http://blogs.denverpost.com/coldcases/2008/08/11/aurora-family-killed-by-intruder-with-taste-for-violence-2/2073/
Denver Post crime reporter Kirk Mitchell unearths and retells the stories of some of Colorado's 1,400 unsolved homicides in hopes of cracking the case.Tue, 21 Jun 2016 08:51:38 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.3By: nataliehttp://blogs.denverpost.com/coldcases/2008/08/11/aurora-family-killed-by-intruder-with-taste-for-violence-2/2073/#comment-3031
Thu, 09 Jan 2014 23:51:00 +0000http://blogs.denverpost.com/coldcases/?p=53#comment-3031http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/01/13/cops-hammer-attack-suspect-tied-to-great-neck-break-in/
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Tue, 10 Dec 2013 09:41:00 +0000http://blogs.denverpost.com/coldcases/?p=53#comment-2993Sounds just like Tommy Lynn Sells crimes.
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Mon, 22 Jul 2013 03:53:00 +0000http://blogs.denverpost.com/coldcases/?p=53#comment-2667where did all the comments go
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Mon, 10 Jun 2013 22:48:00 +0000http://blogs.denverpost.com/coldcases/?p=53#comment-2449How is Vanessa doing? She was brought to Aurora north Hospital then flown on to children’s when my own daughter was a patient there. Always wondered if she is OK.
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Sun, 18 Mar 2012 00:37:00 +0000http://blogs.denverpost.com/coldcases/?p=53#comment-1608Ralph Leon Jackson
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Sun, 01 May 2011 22:00:00 +0000http://blogs.denverpost.com/coldcases/?p=53#comment-1319What happened to all of the comments?
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Wed, 15 Sep 2010 14:43:00 +0000http://blogs.denverpost.com/coldcases/?p=53#comment-1086Thank you for posting Joe and I am so sorry about your Grandmother. I am so glad that this case is getting some news coverage lately with the match on the DNA. I hope it all brings a lead to the police or jars someone’s memory about something. Your family and the others deserve justice and this monster needs to be put away where he belongs, although that is a small punishment compared to the evil he inflicted on others. God Bless You and your family.
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Wed, 15 Sep 2010 06:12:00 +0000http://blogs.denverpost.com/coldcases/?p=53#comment-1087Me and my ex-wife were believed to be the first attacked by the same monster that killed the Bennett family and Patricia Smith. Our attack happened on Jan 4 1984. The attack has changed my life forever,I don’t think I have ever had a day go by I have not felt fear and thought about the people he had killed. I can’t wait to the day he is found.
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Fri, 11 Jun 2010 01:51:32 +0000http://blogs.denverpost.com/coldcases/?p=53#comment-1085My grandmother was Patricia Louise Smith, she was killed Jan. 10, 1984, 6 days before this gruesome crime. She was also mentioned in this article. I believe they have officially connected the 2 crimes via DNA. I hope that all of you who were connected to one of the victims help spread the word and search your memories for anything that could help bring this BRUTAL killer to justice. It would be the only peace to come to my Grandfather from this horrible family tragedy. Thank you, Joe
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Fri, 16 Apr 2010 01:59:16 +0000http://blogs.denverpost.com/coldcases/?p=53#comment-1084My husband and I and our 6-year-old daughter lived in Aurora when this terrible tragedy occurred. I too have never forgotten this family and have often thought of Vanessa and wondered how she was. On the day we moved to Colorado, literally the day we arrived, we heard breaking news about a little girl in Sheridan having been kidnapped from her front yard. Her name was Lori Poland and she was three. Lori was found at the bottom of a filthy outhouse in a remote park a few days later. Thankfully, her kidnapper was caught and prosecuted. As a young mother, I was rattled by that and brought into a new awareness of our need to be careful about our daughter's safety. Then a few months later, the Bennetts were killed not far from where we lived. Oh, the senselessness of it!! My memory is that they felt like the intruder came in through the open garage and hid in the garage until the family was asleep, then entered the house through the unlocked door between the garage and house. I, too, have always locked doors since then and still check the deadbolt on the door entering the house from the garage to this day. Although the Bennetts deaths were horrible, senseless acts, perhaps a few of us have been safer through the years because of the tragedy and our heightened awareness of danger. As a Christian, I am so glad to hear that Vanessa is a Christian. I don't know how people can endure this kind of loss without a relationship with the Lord and a promise that one day, she will see her family again. May the Lord bless her in extra measure because of her loss.
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